The 2014 Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium will explore visual representations of scientific inquiry produced, collected, distributed or otherwise circulating in New England from the start of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines will address a variety of topics from the use of anatomical and biological models in scientific pedagogy to the impact of mechanical inventions for enhancing vision on artistic and scientific practice.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For further information call the Wellesley College Art Department at 781-283-2043 or point your browser to: www.wellesley.edu/art/events/deerfield

Sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College; the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, and made possible by the generous support of the Barra Foundation.

Accompanying the symposium is the Davis Museum exhibit, “The Art of Science: Object Lessons at Wellesley College, 1875-1940,” in the Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove. On view from February 25th –June 22nd 2014.

“Experiencing Science in Three Dimensions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century at Vassar College," Kathleen M. Raley-Susman, Professor of Biology; Jacob P. Giraud, Jr. Chair of Natural History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY

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